Analysis-Norway's wealth tax trades millionaires for equality

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : With a wealth tax dating back to 1892 and a culture of openness that allows citizens to view the tax returns of others, Norway has more experience than most in squeezing the rich.
52% : Leaving Norway triggers an exit tax of 37.8% on unrealised capital gains above 3 million crowns - such as notional gains on shares that have gone up in value but are yet to be sold.
50% : The takeaway: a wealth tax will scare off some millionaires, but if set broadly enough, revenues can still be worth it.
50% : The party had raised the levy and tightened exit rules during its previous term.
42% : THE CASE FOR: EQUALITY AND REVENUE Supporters argue the tax acts as a redistributive backstop in a country that scrapped inheritance tax in 2014 and ranks among the world's wealthiest thanks to oil, shipping and fisheries.
41% : The carpenter turned real-estate tycoon says that is the price he pays to escape Norway's beefed-up wealth tax - an annual levy that has driven hundreds of millionaires abroad while underpinning one of the world's most equal societies.
41% : EXODUS OF THE WEALTHY The tax was a defining issue in Norway's election in September, which returned the Labour Party to power.
32% : Some of their pictures hang on a "wall of shame" in the offices of the small, opposition Socialist Left party.

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